We who tend to get cynical about politics need to pay close attention to the fight in Washington, and the fight after that. There are heroic political efforts going on to defeat the Republican spending bill, with its Medicaid cuts, clean energy cuts and, for the wealthy, tax cuts. “We’ve got to keep fighting,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Georgia, said on the night before the Senate vote. “If we stop fighting, they win.” The next day “they” won, when the bill passed the Senate, with the vice president casting the deciding vote. “I am outraged that the Senate has passed this immoral tax bill put forward by Republicans in Washington,” Warnock said after that vote. “But this fight is not over. Now the bill goes back to the House for another vote. Keep raising your voice. The people are uniting against this Big Ugly Bill.” Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, keeps close contact between the people’s house – the Capitol where he serves in Washington – and God’s house – the church he serves in Atlanta. He quotes the New Testament to constituents and parishioners alike. “What does it profit them,” he was saying on national TV news, “if they gain the whole world and lose their own soul?”– Fletcher Farrar, editor
This article appears in Grillin’ & Chillin’.
Hair on fire alert! No welfare if you are unable body version without children, you’re expected to work 20 hours a week to receive free health insurance. OMG. The end of days. Setting the clock back to the 1990s, the last time we had two consecutive balanced budget budgets. Bill Clinton call it “ending welfare as we know it.” Tell Senator Warnock that Bill Clinton was and is a Democrat.